For students to be successful in the classroom the teacher must first address where the students reading ability is prior to the lesson and how they should scaffold the students learning. There are four types of anticipatory activities that a teacher could start a lesson with to help students activate their background knowledge. They are: Demonstrations, Discrepant Events, Visual Displays, and Thought-Provoking Questions. These are to get the students attention while giving them a memorable experience they can remember back too. Anticipatory activities should be short and concise because they is a limited amount of time to teach the lesson.
When students need to read a section for an assignment, it could be better for the teacher to do Read-alouds because this could foster positive changes in students attitudes towards readings. If a teacher is going to be reading a primary source that will be referenced again later, shared readings would be a good reading strategy because it allows students to follow along.
Since students can become easily discouraged with reading large and/or complicated texts, it is essential for teachers to help them in anyway possible. One way in which a teacher could help would be by creating a vocabulary list for the students. This list does not have to be a traditional list, it would include a space for the students definition in their own words and a spot for them to draw a quick reference picture. Instructors should also help the students with text organization. This could be done by pointing out cause and effect relationships, or just highlighting main event sequences.
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